5 FOREST FROGS

CHAPTER 5 FOREST FROGS "OK, you can come over now, Zoey and Sassafras!" Pip hollered from a few feet away. "Ready?" I whispered to Sassafras. "Meow," he whispered back. We crept slowly over to where Pip was standing with a group of five little forest frogs of various bright colors. I squatted down so I wouldn't look super tall to them and gave a slow wave. Two of them waved back, but the other three looked down at their feet. So shy!

第五章森林里的青蛙“好了，佐伊和萨萨弗拉斯，你们现在可以过来了！”匹普在几英尺远的地方喊道。 “准备好了吗?”我低声对萨萨弗拉斯说。 “喵，”他小声回答。 我们慢慢地爬到匹普和五只颜色各异的森林小青蛙站在一起的地方。 我蹲下来，这样他们就不会觉得我太高了，我慢慢地挥了挥手。 其中两个人也向他挥手，但另外三个人低头看着自己的脚。 那么害羞!

Pip cleared his throat. "So, the news isn't great. My friends followed the mess the hophops left, and most of the forest roses had all of their bips eaten." Pip pointed over to his right, and I turned to look. "WHOOOOOAAAA!" I shouted. "Eeeep!" squealed the tiniest frog, and he hopped behind a rock and hid.

匹普清了清喉咙。“所以，这个消息并不好。 我的朋友们跟着啤酒花留下的烂摊子，大部分的森林玫瑰都被吃掉了。” 匹普指着他的右边，我转过头去看。 “WHOOOOOAAAA !”我叫道。“吱！”最小的青蛙尖声叫着，跳到一块石头后面躲了起来。

"Oh gosh, sorry!" I whispered. "I didn't mean to shout. I just hadn't seen the damage from the hophops yet. Pip, you weren't kidding when you said they ate just about everything in their path!" Over where Pip had pointed was a path several feet wide that stretched way back into the forest. In the path were a few nubs of grasses and some wilty, pale forest roses… and dirt. Just about everything else had been eaten up. I stood on my tippy-toes and tried to follow the path through the forest. "Ohhhhh," I said under my breath. The path twisted around over

“哦，天哪，对不起！”我低声说。 “我不是故意喊的。我只是还没看到啤酒花的危害。 匹普，你不是在开玩笑，你说它们几乎吃光了路上的所有东西！”在比普指的地方，有一条几英尺宽的小路，一直延伸到森林里。 小路上有几块草和一些枯萎的、苍白的森林玫瑰……还有泥土。 几乎所有其他的东西都被吃光了。 我踮起脚尖，试图沿着小路穿过森林。 “哦，”我压低声音说。 小路迂回曲折

to where Sassafras and I had been building Bug Houses yesterday. "Hey, Pip? Do the hophops look like a gray cloud?" "Only sometimes. Usually just a few here or there are nibbling on plants. Not enough to be more than a bother. But every few years we get too many hatching all at once. And this happens." He poked at the dirt left behind and sighed, and then he hopped over to a wiltylooking forest rose. "Bring your Looky Thingy and look here." I peered through the magnifying glass at the leaf Pip pointed to. "It looks neat up close like this," I said as I tilted the magnifying glass and leaf for Sassafras to take a peek.

昨天萨萨弗拉斯和我还在盖虫屋。 “嘿,Pip吗?啤酒花看起来像灰色的云吗？”“只有有时。 通常只有一些在这里或那里啃食植物。 还不足以给你带来麻烦。 但每隔几年，我们就会有太多的企鹅同时孵化。 这就发生了。”他戳了戳留下的泥土，叹了口气，然后他跳上了一棵看起来荒芜的森林玫瑰。 “带上你的窥宝来看看这里。” 我透过放大镜凝视着比普指给我看的那片叶子。 “近距离看，它看起来很整洁。”我一边说，一边倾斜放大镜和叶子，让黄樟看了一眼。

Pip sighed. "Right, but it also has no bips. That's not good." "Uhh, what do bips look like exactly? Are they usually on the leaves?" I asked. "Over here!" squeaked a faraway frog voice. Sass and I followed Pip over to his friend who was standing by a single, healthy forest rose bush. "I finally found one!" She pointed at the bright rose bush. "This is what it's supposed to look like when you look through your Looky Thingy."

皮普叹了口气。“对，但它也没有臀部。 这可不太好。”“嗯，臀部到底长什么样？” 它们通常在树叶上吗？”我问。 “在这里！”远处传来青蛙的尖叫声。 萨斯和我跟着匹普走到他的朋友那里，他站在一丛健康的森林玫瑰丛旁边。 “我终于找到了！”她指着那丛鲜艳的玫瑰。 “当你通过你的Looky thing看东西时，它应该是这个样子的。”

"Oh my goodness!" I whispered. "Sassafras! Look!" I tilted the leaf and magnifying glass down for Sass, and he touched his nose to it. "Oh gosh, bips are really, really cute." I bent down by Sassafras and watched them all. Instead of seeing the leaf surface with all of its veins, this rose leaf looked like a sea of miniature green creatures. They wiggled this way and that as they looked up at us with their eyes. I noticed that one bip in particular was moving a lot, and then there seemed to be a spark of light. "Did you see that?" I rubbed my eyes before looking back through my magnifying glass. "Oh, wow. I was sure that was just one bip a second ago, but now there are two!" Pip leaned over to look. "Hm, I just see a lot of bips!" "Oh! What if we took some of these bips and put them on the other roses? Do you think that could fix them?" "That wouldn't work," Pip replied. "Do you see how many there are? The forest roses need strong magic to help the baby hippogriff wings work. We'd need hundreds… no, thousands… no, bazillions of bips to make the magic that

“哦，天哪！”我低声说。 “黄樟!看!”我把树叶和放大镜倾斜下来给萨斯看，他用鼻子碰了碰。 “哦，天哪，臀部真的非常非常可爱。” 我在黄樟树旁弯下腰，看着他们。 这片玫瑰叶看起来像一片微型绿色生物的海洋，而不是带有所有血管的叶子表面。 当他们抬起眼睛看着我们时，他们扭动着身体。 我注意到有一个臀部特别地动了很多，然后似乎有一个火花。 “你看到了吗？”我揉了揉眼睛，然后用放大镜回头看。 “哦,哇。一秒钟前我还以为只有一个屁股，可现在有两个了！”匹普俯下身去看。 “嗯，我只是看到了很多屁股！”“哦!如果我们把这些穗子放在其他玫瑰上呢？ 你觉得这样能解决问题吗？”“那不行，”匹普回答。 “你看到有多少了吗？” 森林玫瑰需要强大的魔法来帮助幼鹰头马身有翼兽的翅膀工作。 我们需要数百…不，数千…不，是数以亿计的髋部来创造魔法